The wind kicked dust up around your boots, and in the distance, you could see a piece of paper, dancing in the wind like some frilly ballet dancer. You watch as it comes closer… and closer… and closer, until it smacks you right in the face.
With a surprised look upon your face, you tear the paper off your face, to see… it’s a list of rules?

Right, people, while this forum may be pretty much “anything goes”, we still got some rules to follow, m’kay?

First one.

Generally, there are three types of “random battles”. I will now explain these:

One on One
A battle of honour, two forces meet in an area, draw their weapons, and the battle of strength begins. These are invitation only, and please don’t open a topic, saying, “Bob! I challenge you!” without Bob even knowing what’s going on. Both fighters should be clear on what’s happening before the topic is even open.

Open Challenge
For the cocky, everyone and anyone is welcome, the odds could be one on one, three on five, depends on how many people you actually get to join. Though the topic creator does have the choice to limit how many people, or deny people from entering their fight.

Tournament
It would be highly preferred if all tournament fights were posted in here. Generally, most tournaments work by getting sixteen, or thirty two people together, and having them fight one on one until one definitive winner stands, who then gains bragging rights.

Trying to forcefully enter your way into anyone’s topic, without their permission, would be a warn-able offence. In other words, don’t do it, m’kay?

Second one.

God modding. Don’t do it. Don’t know what god modding is?
http://z1.invisionfree.com/forums/The_Fall...showtopic=14303
This should help. In simple words, God Modders are those who land every hit, dodge every attack, and can tear out your soul with just a wink of their eye. They’re not fun to play against, and it’s just silly people.

You may not kill another’s character, without their permission. You may not auto-hit, or stick someone in a completely un-avoidable situation. The only person that can decide what hits and what doesn’t is the other person. M’kay?

Repeated offences of God Modding would be a warn, as well.

Third one

When you actually make a post, please, please for the love of god, spew out at least a paragraph. Paragraph being roughly four to five sentences. I can understand when there’s little to go on, or if you’re just doing a simple movement, but still. If you post a small amount, that gives your opponent hardly anything to go off of, forcing them to write small things as well, and may or may not cause boredom in said fight.

Here’s some examples.

Bad post

Billy jumped into the air, and then tried to stab Joey in the chest.

See? Boring, plain, who even wants to read that?

Good post

Billy rushes forward, sword drawn backwards, before leaping up into the air, right above Joey. Aiming his sword downwards, the blade gleamed as Billy let gravity take its work, and attempted to drive the blade downwards, into Joey’s chest, to end their fight once and for all.

Better, but that’s just an example, and not a very good one at that. That would be an example of a short post, from lack of doing much. Generally, we’d like posts longer than that as well.

As for Out Of Character, OOC, comments, keep them minimal. Any questions can be asked through a simple PM or a nice IM conversation. Any posts that are strictly OOC will be regarded as spam, and spam is against the rules kiddies!

Fourth one.

Just have some fun. The point of this is just to have fun, spread your writing skills, and not be restricted by some higher who says you have to talk to the Elf in the forest to get the mystical key to open up the chest which lets you get the ancient sword which will break the spell on your mother’s grave. No, you and a friend, or hell, even a hated enemy, can just sit down, and duke it out with your own personal rules. It can also be a way to improve your writing skills, as you never know what will happen next, sharpening your pencil to be able to write about anything. So just go at it, and have some fun.

You smile, that paper was rather useful. You decide to keep it with you, until you may find a place where you can post it, to allow others to see the great knowledge stored on its page. Rather lucky you happened to be in this desert town while it was windy, isn’t it?